BioWare Generates SWTOR’s Ancient Hypergate Update

Share this:

Star Wars takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and Star Wars: The Old Republic is set an even longer time ago than that. Thus, this Hypergate – which is positively ancient, even by SWTOR’s musty standards – must be older than time itself. Naturally, then, people (and blue not-people and green not-people and spiky faced not-people) must risk reducing the precious relic to ash by waging brutal, ceaseless wars over it. That’s just how these things work. And now you can join in on the ill-advised carnage for absolutely no money*. No strings attached**. Nope, none ***. Seriously****!

Oh huh, apparently Hypergates run on the lifeforce of slain enemies. That’s somewhat, er, totally evil of them. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to see this one fall. BUT ANYWAY. The goal of each match is to power-up your team’s energy pylon – by way of flashy, spark-scattering glowstick murder, naturally – until it’s ready to unleash “deadly reinforcements” and finish the job.

Six new level 50 space missions (per faction) are also part of the package, and they’ll apparently “challenge the greatest pilots in the galaxy.” Are you one of the greatest pilots in the galaxy? Are you sure? Oh, well OK then. But only if you’re sure.

The update’s flopping about like a summer trout (Sorry, the rhyming headline appears to have infected my brain) right now, so you can give it a go whenever you please. Do that, if you’re feeling so inclined.

*Well, until you’ve played it five times, anyway.

**Oh, but either subscribing or forking over cash for Cartel Coins will fix that right up.

***You should probably tell BioWare this sort of thing’s a super bad idea for an MMO. It’s apparently all-ears.

I dunno man. Over the last few years I’ve seen the RPS comments page basically become what seems like an extension of reddit. Where by the dozen, witless gobshites mistake memes and references for humour.

My worst 60 bucks spent on an online game. This and The Secret World. The problem is not that subscription-based MMOs can’t survive anymore. The problem is that SWTOR (and other failures) are just very *bad* games. Free or not free – that fact is not going to change, sadly.

Sure the end game was non-existent and the out-of-car movement round towns was diabolical and the balance was atrocious *but* there were moments of honest to goodness fun to be had there and it made a reasonable stab at combining twitch and stats based gameplay.

Thirding this. NC Soft isn’t doing so well and I think they could improve the company’s image and production by releasing some of their older failed games as f2p games. Auto Assault is at the top of my list for that. I would love to play that game again. It was so much fun, and there’s nothing else like it, with the way your movement was so important to the way fights played out.

I don’t think it’s Bioware so much as Star Wars. Isn’t Star Wars basically High Fantasy IN SPACE? The Old Republic setting even more so, with evil places like Malachor, and bad guys who essentially have godlike powers.

My main issue is that the initial concept art of Mass Effect made it look much more like a Star Trek without the politically correct utopia… the sort of sci fi stuff like Babylon 5, Farscape, or Stargate gave us.